fatalist

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n. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity, a person who believes in fatalism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A believer in fatalism; one who maintains the opinion that all things happen by inevitable predetermination.

n. One whose conduct is controlled by belief in fatalism; one who accepts all the events and conditions of life as proceeding from or leading to an inevitable fate: as, Orientals are naturally fatalists.

Another term used to refer to people who see external forces as greatly determining their destiny is "fatalist," and Mexicans have often been labeled as being a great deal more fatalistic than Americans.

She made him sit down; she assured him that her sister quite expected him, would feel as sorry as she could ever feel for anything -- for she was a kind of fatalist, anyhow -- if he didn't stay to dinner.

The problem is that if you give an audience a threat, but no information on how to counter it, they either become fatalist or ignore it, and also, it opens the door to the counter-framing of calling people “alarmists”.

As he dies, the fatalist succumbs amid London's refrain: “Fortune did not whirl, but gay San Francisco dimmed and faded; and as the sun-bright snow turned blacker and blacker, he breathed his last malediction on the Chance he had misplayed.”